ActiveReports provides fully integrated Visual Studio components which combine user-friendly visual controls with the low-level control of code in Visual Studio .NET programming languages to provide a powerful report designer.

In This Documentation

Welcome to ActiveReports 12 

This section provides basic information on installing and using the product, as well as support, licensing, and what's new.

License Your ActiveReports 

This topic walks you through how to license your machine and how to add licensing to any projects created during your evaluation.

Upgrading Reports

This topic provides information about upgrading reports from previous versions of ActiveReports and Data Dynamics Reports, and about importing MS Access Reports, Crystal Reports, and Excel files with the Import Wizard.

Importing Reports

This section describes about importing different reports in ActiveReports using ActiveReports Import Wizard.

Getting Started

This section provides an overview of the interface and where to find everything you need to get started designing reports.

Viewing Reports 

Learn how to preview a report at design time or view it in Windows Form, Web, Flash, or Silverlight Viewers.

Concepts

This section provides information on what you can do with ActiveReports.

How To

This section provides step-by-step instructions for many features.

Samples and Walkthroughs

This section provides a description of the samples available with ActiveReports and step-by-step walkthroughs explaining key features.

Troubleshooting

This section provides troubleshooting symptoms, causes, and solutions to commonly encountered issues.